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Penn-Trafford earns trip to Penn State with win over West Allegheny
Penn-Trafford softball coach Denny Little was under the weather Sunday night and was not sure he would be able to make his team’s PIAA Class 5A semifinal against West Allegheny on Monday. The perfect prescription was an all-around solid effort by the Warriors that left the Indians feeling ill. Penn-Trafford...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of June 9, 2025
It’s the final countdown with a light at the end of the tunnel marking the end to the 2024-2025 high school sports season. The final week of action includes the semifinals and championships in four PIAA spring sports this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. For the final...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for June 8, 2025Video
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week – Greg Minnick School: Indiana Class: Senior Position: Pitcher #Earned: Minnick took the mound against Elizabeth Forward in the WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship game looking for personal redemption. In the 2024 district title game, he started and pitched four innings, allowing four...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 9, 2025: Spots in PIAA finals up for grabs
Six years ago, the West Allegheny and Penn-Trafford softball programs celebrated championships: The Indians won a third straight WPIAL Class 5A crown, and the Warriors captured their first PIAA title. Now the two tradition-rich teams square off to see who will play for a 2025 state championship Friday at Penn...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 8, 2025Video
Trib HSSN softball player of the week: Lauren Howard School: Hempfield Class: Junior Position: Second base #Earned: four days after winning the second WPIAL championship in her three-year high school career, Lauren Howard and her Hempfield teammates went back to work in an effort to win the school’s fifth state...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for June 7, 2025
There were some tweaks and small changes in five of the six classifications through the quarterfinals of the PIAA softball playoffs, and then there was Class 5A. All five teams from last week’s post-district playoffs Trib HSSN state softball rankings were bounced in either the opening round or the second...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for June 7, 2025
From last week to this week, two rounds of the PIAA baseball playoffs were played. The results left the weekly Trib HSSN state rankings almost unrecognizable in four of the six classifications. Only the teams ranked in the Class 3A and 2A Top 5 from last week tasted success in...
Trib 10: It’s not just WPIAL champs climbing in postseason power rankings
A couple of district baseball and softball teams that came up short of their goal of winning a WPIAL championship are trying to take advantage of a second chance at gold that the PIAA postseason offers. The state playoffs are halfway through the four rounds with six baseball and six...
Trib HSSN softball team of the week for June 6, 2025
Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Chartiers-Houston Buccaneers Coach: Tricia Alderson (22nd year) Record: Chartiers-Houston captured the Section 3-2A crown with a record of 10-0, finishing three games ahead of both Seton LaSalle and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The Buccaneers have a current overall record of...
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week for June 6, 2025
Trib HSSN baseball team of the week – South Park Eagles Coach: Corey Fischer (second season) Record: South Park finished in second place in Section 2-3A, one game behind champion Avonworth and two games ahead of South Allegheny. The Eagles have an overall record of 17-7 with postseason wins in...
6 WPIAL softball teams headed to PIAA semifinals
Two WPIAL teams are guaranteed to play for a 2025 PIAA softball title next week. However, district teams have also been bounced from two classifications heading into the final four. Penn-Trafford will clash with West Allegheny in a Class 5A third-round contest, and Neshannock battles Chartiers-Houston in a rematch of...
6 WPIAL teams advance to PIAA baseball semifinals
Midway through the 2025 PIAA baseball playoffs and there are six WPIAL teams remaining in the hunt for state gold. Following a loss by Class 6A champ Seneca Valley in the quarterfinals, four WPIAL winners are alive for double gold with Shaler in Class 5A, Indiana in 4A, Riverside in...
Shaler’s other ace holds Bethel Park at bay in Class 5A quarterfinal showdown
Shaler senior Colby Weber is the perfect ace of a pitching staff. The East Carolina recruit stands 6-foot-7 with an electric arm, and he’s 9-0 with a 0.38 ERA. But the Titans have a dynamic duo atop their pitching chart, and if the Caped Crusader is awesome, the 5-10 Boy...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 5, 2025: Class 5A baseball powers collide in state quarterfinals
Eight WPIAL programs have captured multiple PIAA baseball championships. Two of them are set to collide in the state quarterfinals Thursday. WPIAL Class 5A champion Shaler (18-6) goes up against Bethel Park (20-5) at Gateway at 3:30 p.m. The Titans captured state gold two years ago when they outlasted Strath...
7 WPIAL lacrosse teams to play in PIAA quarterfinals
Considering the history where district teams went one and done many years, the WPIAL more than held its own in the first round of the PIAA lacrosse playoffs. District 7 teams were a combined 4-2 on the boys side and 3-3 in the girls brackets. One of the five that...
4 WPIAL teams advance to PIAA boys volleyball quarterfinals
WPIAL teams went a combined 4-2 in the opening round of the 2025 PIAA boys volleyball playoffs Tuesday. Both District 7 champions, North Allegheny in 3A and Shaler in 2A, were easy winners and will be joined in the next round by Penn-Trafford in 3A and Ambridge in 2A. The...
8 WPIAL teams advance to PIAA softball quarterfinals
It was a bit of a rough start to the 2025 PIAA softball playoffs for the 18 WPIAL teams. District 7 teams were a combined 8-10 on Monday. WPIAL teams from the top three classifications were 5-3, while in the bottom three classes, district teams were a rough 3-7, including...
PIAA sets times, sites for baseball quarterfinals
It was a strong start to the 2025 PIAA baseball playoffs for the 19 qualifiers from the WPIAL on Monday. District 7 teams were a combined 13-6 in the opening round, including a perfect 8-0 showing from the teams in Class 6A, 4A and 3A. The WPIAL teams from 5A...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 3, 3035: Volleyball, lacrosse state playoffs begin
Tuesday marks the start of the PIAA boys volleyball, boys lacrosse and girls lacrosse state playoffs. Thanks in large part to the success of the North Allegheny program, the WPIAL has had at least one team reach the PIAA boys volleyball finals every season since 2012. In the last 11...
Neshannock’s softball wizards take state playoff opener with record 49th straight win
The final lyrics from The Who’s 1971 rock anthem “Won’t Get Fooled Again” seemed appropriate for the latest Neshannock softball win Monday in the PIAA first round against District 10 runner-up Sharpsville. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” The Lancers’ 10-0 five-inning whitewash of the Blue Devils...
Trib HSSN softball player of the week for June 1, 2025
Trib HSSN softball player of the week – Marissa Snyder School – Hampton Class – Sophomore Position – Pitcher #Earned – What a difference a year makes. As a fabulous freshman last season, Marissa Snyder helped Hampton reach the 2024 WPIAL 4A championship game. However she struggled against Elizabeth Forward...
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week for June 1, 2025
Trib HSSN baseball player of the week: Zach Hare School: Riverside Class: Senior Position: Pitcher, first base #Earned: Many high school coaches want their players and teams to improve as the season goes on, hopefully playing their best ball in the postseason. The success curve has been pretty high for...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for June 2, 2025: PIAA baseball, softball playoffs begin
Not only is the sixth month of the year underway, but one of the final athletic events on the school calendar begins Monday with the first pitch of the PIAA baseball and softball championships. The Seneca Valley baseball team just captured the program’s fifth WPIAL championship. Now it begins its...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of June 2, 2025
With the WPIAL spring sports postseason in the rear view mirror, the only thing left is two weeks of the PIAA playoffs in those recently concluded sports as we kick off June here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have video and audio coverage from several PIAA state...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for June 1, 2025
Some teams thrive on the pressures of a big game; those are the ones that usually are lined up on the basepath with gold hanging from their necks. Then there are those who come up short, and either settle for silver or worse and see their season end short of...
